Lip service ends on Strictly Come Dancing

He left with a rueful smile, a standing ovation from the judges and the total removal of his shirt - the parting gesture formulated earlier in the series by Mark Foster, the swimmer, and which is officially sport’s gift to Strictly Come Dancing.

But there were no regrets, surely, for the “Leicester Lip”. Confronted for the first time in the series with the prospect of the dreaded dance-off, Healey swore that he would “leave my heart and soul on that dance floor”. Few would dispute that he did just that - nor that Erin Boag, his partner, left a large part of her hairstyle on it, too. Not…